"Well-defined norms for behavior can help to dispel the 'what ifs' and enhance feelings of safety, security, and
competance" (Weinstein et.al., 92). GlogsterEDU
GlogsterEDU is the number one leading online multimedia poster creation resource. Its goals are to expand students’ creativity, knowledge and skills by creating GLOGS- or virtual posters. Glogs can be composed of anything from images, videos, sound, text, attachments, and more making your presentation appealing to all types of learners. Glogs are easy to create, making them feasible to use in early childhood classrooms all the way up to higher education. Simply click and drag the interface you want onto the canvas and watch your poster come to life with the more interactive elements you add to it. Glogs are highly beneficial in classrooms because they expand students’ digital literacy, enable standards mastery, promote problem solving, and are a way of differentiating instruction. Glogster EDU actually met the national education technology and content area standard for teachers and students in k-12 plus setting. For our purposes with classroom management and establishing behavior norms, Glogs can be a wonderful outlet to brainstorm and create classroom rule, constitutions, etc. with your students. Rather than the usual chart paper hung in the room, growing yellow and pale with time, why not try a glog filled with pictures, captions, and videos demonstrating how students should act. Share with on any social media site, including your classes webpage, your edmodo, and the students wikispaces as well or send it to yourself and print it to hang somewhere in the classroom. GlogsterEDU is a great way to create classroom norms and behaviors with students in a fun and interactive
Smartboard Routines
Every teacher has them, the set of classroom routines you perform for the first ten to twenty minutes of the morning. Now granted, they are called routines because they have to be performed daily, but what can you do to make them more attractive, engaging and educating for students? Try one of the smart exchange lessons such as classroom attendance or morning calendar. These lessons would practice the same content with students, but would have them exercising their gross and fine motor skills, engaging by physically checking in, and taking accountability for themselves and the day. Every classroom must have a routine and rules, and these lessons are SMART at enforcing students to understand these classroom norms while promoting autonomy and responsibility.
Wordle is a tool for generating word clouds from text that you have written. Simple type any series of words on whatever topic you wish or upload a paper or blog post and watch your words become art. The more you type a word into the text box, the larger it will be displayed and the more times it will appear. Editclouds with different fonts, styles, colors, layouts, and them embed, share or print your Wordle. My Wordle to the right is to be hung in my classroom as it displays classroom guidelines I want my students to follow. Make this on your own and ask students to interpret it or collaborate and establish rules as a class on the Wordle.
GlogsterEDU
GlogsterEDU is the number one leading online multimedia poster creation resource. Its goals are to expand students’ creativity, knowledge and skills by creating GLOGS- or virtual posters. Glogs can be composed of anything from images, videos, sound, text, attachments, and more making your presentation appealing to all types of learners. Glogs are easy to create, making them feasible to use in early childhood classrooms all the way up to higher education. Simply click and drag the interface you want onto the canvas and watch your poster come to life with the more interactive elements you add to it. Glogs are highly beneficial in classrooms because they expand students’ digital literacy, enable standards mastery, promote problem solving, and are a way of differentiating instruction. Glogster EDU actually met the national education technology and content area standard for teachers and students in k-12 plus setting. For our purposes with classroom management and establishing behavior norms, Glogs can be a wonderful outlet to brainstorm and create classroom rule, constitutions, etc. with your students. Rather than the usual chart paper hung in the room, growing yellow and pale with time, why not try a glog filled with pictures, captions, and videos demonstrating how students should act. Share with on any social media site, including your classes webpage, your edmodo, and the students wikispaces as well or send it to yourself and print it to hang somewhere in the classroom. GlogsterEDU is a great way to create classroom norms and behaviors with students in a fun and interactive
Smartboard Routines
Every teacher has them, the set of classroom routines you perform for the first ten to twenty minutes of the morning. Now granted, they are called routines because they have to be performed daily, but what can you do to make them more attractive, engaging and educating for students? Try one of the smart exchange lessons such as classroom attendance or morning calendar. These lessons would practice the same content with students, but would have them exercising their gross and fine motor skills, engaging by physically checking in, and taking accountability for themselves and the day. Every classroom must have a routine and rules, and these lessons are SMART at enforcing students to understand these classroom norms while promoting autonomy and responsibility.
Wordle
Wordle is a tool for generating word clouds from text that you have written. Simple type any series of words on whatever topic you wish or upload a paper or blog post and watch your words become art. The more you type a word into the text box, the larger it will be displayed and the more times it will appear. Editclouds with different fonts, styles, colors, layouts, and them embed, share or print your Wordle. My Wordle to the right is to be hung in my classroom as it displays classroom guidelines I want my students to follow. Make this on your own and ask students to interpret it or collaborate and establish rules as a class on the Wordle.